Wheating is the process of planting all your fields with wheat and constantly harvesting and selling them to get rare items. It is easily the highest profit and xp in the game. Please note that the profit of wheating is in the rare items and not the wheat. You should simply get rid of the wheat as fast as possible when wheating to gain more profits. If you can't sell your wheat fast enough you might need to expand your RSS, lower the price of your wheat, place more ads, or switch to another crop which you can sell faster like corn. Wheating profit example: 70 fields = 6,000 gold per hour and 2,100 xp per hour.

2. Trees and Bushes

All trees and bushes produce 13 fruit. If you have enough trees and bushes, the time it takes for a tree to fruit is completely irrelevent. The only limiting factor of trees and bushes is saws and axes which you can get tons of from wheating. Currently, each saw and axe is worth 500 gold+ to me because I have so many trees and bushes. Trees profit example: 1 Cocoa tree yields 13 fruit worth 1,123. 1 Saw costs 54 max and 1 Cocoa tree costs 550. 1,123 - 604 = 519 Profit per Saw.

3. Sell in RSS at Max

Selling anything and everything in your RSS at max price will generally give you the most money in the game. However, you will get no xp for doing this. Additionally, during certain special events it is more profitable to do the event than to sell in the RSS.

4. Special Events

During the truck or boat event it is most profitable to do that type of order instead of selling in the RSS. If you know how to play the Little People event properly you can make hundreds of thousands. If you're not sure whether a particular event is profitable, simply search for info on it in these forums. There are also some links in this guide.

5. Barn, Silo, and Land Expansions

A larger barn and silo, as well as more land is always profitable in the long run.

6. When you're too Rich

At some point you will most likely be too rich. I currently have everything maxed and expanded and I huge surplus of coins. Coins aren't so important to me anymore and it's more about the xp. However, I still find it useful to know how to make a lot of money because nearly all my neighbors need money and I like to give money away and help out. For example: let's say you need some blue sweaters to fill a boat. If you have the coins you can purchase the sweaters and essentially convert money to xp. Hypothetically, if you were insanely rich, money could be completely irrelevant to you; but at that point it's my recommendation to help out new players or give some away.

Tips and Tricks

1. Rare Items

All farms have a rare, medium, and common item in each set of 3 rare items. There is something in the game code to prevent hoarding. If you keep even ratios of these rare items you will find more of what you need. If you hoard a ton of one in the set of three you will find more of that and potentially few of the other two.

2. Buy Low and Sell High

This may seem obvious, but if you can produce an item at high profit and buy a cheaper item at a lower cost, why not? For example, corn bread is common in my newspaper and I can make greater profit by producing other items in my bakery. This means I'll almost always buy corn bread when I need it and produce and sell other things in my bakery.

3. Helping Others

This game is for fun, you can do whatever you like. I personally like to help out others by producing the items which are less common in the newspaper to sell to friends and strangers. I also only help 1 tree when I find them on a farm so more players can get the thank you notes.

4. Dairy, Sugar and Jams

All of these items, especially dairy items are extremely rare due to high demand and their use as so many ingredients in products. I like to carefully manage my resources so I always have a supply of these things. For me, this means ignoring boats, trucks, town people requests, etc. for those extremely rare items. Especially the raw ingredients. Again, you can do whatever you want, this is just what I do to have fun.

5. Machines and Diamonds

I like to use diamonds on expanding production slots where I need them and getting more space in my RSS. I find this the most cost effective use of them. I also like to keep most of my machines running 24/7 to maximize profits. I idle some machines like the coffee kiosk and soup kitchen by default. This is because they waste a ton of dairy with little return on your investment.

6. Ads

If you put up an ad on a slow seller you can get more exposure to your shop. I.e. greater chance someone will help your boat or buy your other things (usually). Some good dummy ad items are: bacon and eggs, wool products, and popcorn. Another trick is putting up a help flag on just one tree, bush, or crate at a time. The help flags will get more traffic to your RSS.

7. Cast off Boat

You can cast off a boat unfilled by using the highlighted 'cast off' button. However, you can only cast off a boat and get a new one in 4 hours if you haven't yet filled any crates or asked for help on any crates.

8. Little People

The visitors to your farm will ask for the 2 things you have most of in your barn and silo. They will also ask for anything you have 0 of. For this reason, it's usually wise to hold at least 1 of everything and potentially a lot of what you want to get rid of to sell to them.

9. Common Items

Just about everything in the game will sell for max price eventually if you have ads up. If not, Tom or Greg will buy it. That said, sometimes you don't want to wait. It's good to know which items are common, which are very common, and which are rare. Very common items include: wheat, corn, cornbread, eggs, eggs and bacon, popcorn (except butter popcorn), and anything with wool in it. Some people may disagree, but I find it helpful to know.

10. Money Transfer

You can transfer money in the game by selling an item such as blue sweaters 10 for one coin (or default) and buying back at max. Rinse and repeat to transfer as much money as you want. It's helpful to have chat and no ads up when doing this.

11. Multiple Accounts

If you have an extra device lying around you can create a second or tertiary farm. You would need to create all separate and new accounts or risk deleting your original farm. Please only attempt this at your own risk and discretion. It could potentially violate the terms of use of some associated companies.

12. Machine Stacking

If your barn is full, you can stack up extra items on your machines provided you keep your barn full. I believe the maximum number of items you can stack on a machine is 100. For example, if your barn was full, you could keep spending 3 wheat to 'stack up' bread on your bakery. This strategy can be helpful when you want to keep stockpiling good items without using up your barn space.

Explanation of Guide:

The below probably looks like gibberish. I'll try to explain what I was doing below.

*: this means this item is the most profitable per hour.+: this means the item is the most profitable per item. $: this means the item is profitable, but limited by its ingredient's production time.=: this means the item yields the highest xp per hour.^: this means the item yields the highest xp per item.X: This item is valuable, but overproduced in the current marketplace. Or, yields a negative profit.

All values are minus the price of ingredients and done in hours of production.

All values are also based on player demand, and not Tom and Greg. If you want to sell to Tom and Greg you'll have to recalculate for max sale values.

Slow/Fast/Medium is the relative speed at which the items sell at that price based on current market valuations (21/06/2014).

The first number is how many items at what price. The second number is the profit per hour. The third number is profit per item (like overnight or on vacation). The fourth number is xp per hour. Lastly, the fifth number is xp per item.